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"Be
not dismayed my soldiers, because my son Donough is avenging our
wrongs in Leinster; he will return victorious, and in the glory
of his conquests you shall share. On your valor rests the hopes
of your country today; and what surer grounds can they rest upon?
Oppression now attempts to bend you down to servility; will you
burst its chains and rise to the independence of Irish freemen?
Your cause is one approved by Heaven.
You
seek not the oppression of others; you fight for your country and
sacred altars. It is a cause that claims heavenly protection. In
this days battle the interposition of that God who can give victory
will be singly manifested in your favor. Let every heart, then,
be the throne of confidence and courage. You know that the Danes
are strangers to religion and humanity; they are inflamed with the
desire of violating the fairest daughters of this land of beauty,
and enriching themselves with the spoils of sacrilege and plunder.
The barbarians have impiously fixed, for their struggle, to enslave
us, upon the very day on which the Redeemer of the world was crucified.
Victory
they shall not have! from such brave soldiers as you they can never
wrest it; for you fight in defense of honor, liberty and religion-in
defense of the sacred temples of the true God, and of your sisters,
wives and daughters. Such a holy cause must be the cause of God,
who will deliver your enemies this day into your hands. Onward,
then, for your country and your sacred altars"
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